Seamus Deakin

James Aubrey (Seamus) Deakin

Born| (1874-06-19)June 19, 1874

Mount Auburn, Richmond, Dublin

Died| December 10, 1952(1952-12-10) (aged 78)

Drumcollogher, County Limerick

Nationality| Irish
Occupation| Irish nationalist
Political party| Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB)

James Aubrey (Seamus) Deakin (19 June 1874 – 10 December 1952) was an Irish nationalist and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), of which he was president from 1913 to 1914.

## Biography[edit]

He was born at Mount Auburn, Richmond, Dublin, the son of James Deakin, a traveller, and Mary Anne Tate.[1] His family was Church of Ireland. In 1901, he was living at 27 Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, with his wife, Catherine, a Scottish-born Presbyterian.[2] Ten years later, the couple was living at 37 Thomond Terrace, Inn's Quay, Dublin, with their three children.[3]

Deakin worked as a chemist in Hoyt's pharmacy in O'Connell Street and later owned his own shop in Phibsborough.[4] Deakin became involved in the Irish nationalist movement during the early 1900s, along with other Protestant nationalists such as George Irvine, Ernest Blythe and Seán O'Casey, and within a short time became a high-ranking member in the Drumcondra branch of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In 1913, he succeeded John Mulholland as president of the IRB before acceding to Denis McCullough the following year. Deakin resigned from the Supreme Council and from the IRB about August 1914.[5]

It is a common belief that he emigrated to the US, but that is almost certainly not true.[4] He died of a coronary thrombosis on 10 December 1952 in Drumcollogher, County Limerick – where he had moved from Dublin about a decade previously – and was buried in the local cemetery.[6]

## Further reading[edit]

* Martin, Francis X. The Irish Volunteers, 1913–1915: Recollections and Documents. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., 1963.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "General Registrar's Office" (PDF). IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
2. ^ "National Archives: Census of Ireland, 1901". www.census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
3. ^ "National Archives: Census of Ireland, 1911". www.census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
4. ^ a b Murray, Christopher (2004). Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work. Gill & Macmillan. pp. 71–2. ISBN 0717127508. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
5. ^ "Witness Statement 30 (Bulmer Hobson)" (PDF). Bureau of Military History. 17 October 1947. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
6. ^ "General Registrar's Office". IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 18 September 2017.

Political offices

Preceded by

John Mulholland

|  President of the
Irish Republican Brotherhood
1913-1914  | Succeeded by

Denis McCullough

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Irish Republican Brotherhood

General|

* Young Ireland
* Fenianism
* Irish republicanism
* Physical force Irish republicanism
* Irish in the American Civil War
* Manchester Martyrs
* Cuba Five
* New Departure
* Irish Race Conventions
* Obstructionism
* Fenian Ram
* Hindu–German Conspiracy
* Declaration of Independence
* Irish Republic
* Sinn Féin
* Anglo-Irish Treaty
* Irish Civil War
* Irish Free State

Actions|

* Fenian Rising (Clerkenwell explosion and Fenian raids)
* Catalpa rescue
* Land War
* Fenian dynamite campaign
* Easter Rising
* Irish War of Independence
* Army Mutiny

Presidents|

* James Stephens
* Thomas J. Kelly
* J. F. X. O'Brien
* Charles Kickham
* John O'Connor Power
* John O'Leary
* Neal O'Boyle
* John Mulholland
* Seamus Deakin
* Denis McCullough
* Thomas Ashe
* Seán McGarry
* Harry Boland
* Patrick Moylett
* Michael Collins
* Richard Mulcahy

Prominent
members|

| 19th century|

* Thomas Francis Bourke
* Ricard O'Sullivan Burke
* Edward O'Meagher Condon
* John Daly
* Michael Davitt
* Timothy Deasy
* John Devoy
* Michael Doheny
* Thomas Clarke Luby
* John O'Mahony
* Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
* Pat Nally
* William R. Roberts

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20th century|

* Éamonn Ceannt
* Tom Clarke
* Bulmer Hobson
* Seán Mac Diarmada
* Diarmuid Lynch
* Patrick Pearse
* Joseph Plunkett

Informants|

* Thomas Miller Beach
* Francis Frederick Millen

Associates|

* Clan na Gael
* Cumann na mBan
* Emmet Monument Association
* Fenian Brotherhood
* Fianna Éireann
* Friends of Irish Freedom
* Irish Republican Army
* Irish Freedom (newspaper)
* The Irish People (newspaper)
* United Irishmen of America

Derivatives|

* Irish National Invincibles (Phoenix Park killings)

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